Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving at Geneva, Sir Samuel at once invited Baron Pompeo Aloisi to his hotel. Next day Captain Eden sat in "Flying Sam's" hotel bedroom conference with the Fascist Baron, who in turn was twice closeted with Premier Laval...
...able Pittsburgh sculptor named Frank Vittor lately asked Manager Tyson's permission to do a statue of "Miss America." Chaperoned by her grandmother, Mrs. Hettie Ebert, modest Miss Leaver went to Sculptor Vittor's studio, was photographed, posed twice in a bathing suit. During her last visit she was horrified to notice that there was no bathing suit on Sculptor Vittor's statue. Outraged, she stormed, threatened suit...
Inland Steel ranks next to National as a Depression earner. Its nine-month profit for 1935 came to $6,668,000, more than twice the earnings of the same 1934 period...
General Motors last week reported nine-month earnings of $114,482,000 against $92,445,000 for the 1934 period. Nine-month sales for the G. M. group totaled 763,406 cars. Brightest members of the General Motors family are Oldsmobile and Pontiac, both selling at about twice their 1934 rate. Neither Buick nor Cadillac has shown much sales increase thus far in 1935 but, in addition to a lower-priced Buick, General Motors is also bringing out a 1936 Cadillac at $1,645-a $700 decrease from the lowest price in the 1935 line...
...hunting in Tanganyika, included Hemingway and his wife a professional English guide named Jackson Phillips, a friend and rival hunter called Karl who always triumphed over Hemingway. When Hemingway killed a rhinoceros at 300 yards, making a beautiful shot that filled him with elation, Karl casually brought down one twice as large. When Hemingway traveled without his guide into wilder country to bag a kudu the real object of the hunt, Karl shot a much nobler specimen almost without effort. Since Green Hills of Africa is an attempt to write "an absolutely true book." Hemingway does not conceal his acute...